BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Denver X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Denver BEGIN:VEVENT UID:17-19424@music.colostate.edu DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260610T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260610T213000 DTSTAMP:20260428T224742Z URL:https://music.colostate.edu/events/organ-week-concert-todd-wilson-solo -organ-recital/ SUMMARY:Organ Week Concert: Todd Wilson\, Solo Organ Recital / FREE DESCRIPTION:Organ Week travels to Greeley with a recital by world-famous or ganist Todd Wilson (Cleveland Institute of Music). The newly restored 1967 Casavant organ at Trinity Episcopal Church will provide audiences the opp ortunity to hear another instrument designed by Lawrence Phelps\, the fame d organ builder behind the organs at CSU and St. Luke’s in Fort Collins. The program will offer an eclectic mix of classical organ works selected to showcase the beauty of this versatile instrument.\n\nLocation: Trinity Episcopal Church\, 3800 W. 20th St.\, Greeley CO. 80634\n\nRegarded across America and around the world as one of today’s finest concert organists \, Todd Wilson serves as head of the Organ Department at The Cleveland Ins titute of Music\, and Curator of the E.M. Skinner pipe organ at Severance Music Center (home of The Cleveland Orchestra).\n\nTodd Wilson has been he ard in recital at many major venues throughout the United States\, Europe\ , and Japan\, including Symphony Hall (Birmingham\, UK)\, Westminster Abbe y (London\, UK)\, St. Patrick’s Cathedral\, Dublin (Ireland)\, Los Angel es’ Walt Disney Concert Hall\, Chicago's Orchestra Hall\, Cleveland’s Severance Hall\, Dallas’ Meyerson Symphony Center\, Philadelphia’s Ver izon Hall\, Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center\, Milwaukee’s Uih lein Hall\, Washington National Cathedral\, St. Patrick’s Cathedral\, Ne w York City\, and the 21\,000-seat Mormon Conference Center in Salt Lake C ity. He also was a recitalist for Austrian Radio in Vienna\, and in 2005 p resented his first solo recital in Tokyo\, Japan.\n\nMr. Wilson has appear ed with many orchestras around the world including the Cleveland Orchestra \, the Los Angeles Philharmonic for whom in 2004 he was featured organ sol oist on the first orchestra subscription series concerts featuring the new Walt Disney Concert Hall organ\, the Nashville Symphony\, the Slovakian R adio Symphony Orchestra\, the Naples (Florida) Philharmonic\, and The City of London Sinfonia.\n\nTodd Wilson has many recordings to his credit on t he Raven\, Naxos\, JAV\, Delos\, Gothic\, Disques du Solstice and other pr ivate labels\, including his most recent two-disc release “The Murray Hi ll Organ at St. James in-the-City\, Los Angeles”\, his landmark recordin g of the Duruflé organ works\, the organ works of Gerre Hancock\, Terry R iley’s “At the Grand Majestic” recordedwith the Nashville Symphony\, discs featuring the organ works of George Thalben-Ball and Frank Bridge\, a solo recital of American music recorded at Washington National Cathedra l\, a two-disc collection entitled “In a Quiet Cathedral” featuring me ditative organ music recorded at the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta\, a recording of Great French Virtuosic Organ Music recorded at the Universi ty of Alabama\, a recording of music for cello and organ recorded with his daughter\, Rachel\, a recording of duo organ works with David Higgs entit led “Double Forte”\, and a recording of Tournemire organ works played on the organ at Chartres Cathedral in France.\n\nMr. Wilson received his B achelor and Master of Music degrees from the College- Conservatory of Musi c at the University of Cincinnati\, where he studied organ with Wayne Fish er and piano with John Quincy Bass. Further coaching in organ repertoire w as with Russell Saunders at The Eastman School of Music. He won numerous c ompetitions\, including the prestigious French Grand Prix de Chartres\, th e Fort Wayne Competition\, the Strader National Scholarship Competition an d the national competition sponsored by the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles.\n\nAn active member of the American Guild of Organists\, Mr. Wilson holds the Fellow and Choirmaster certificates\, receiving the S. L ewis Elmer Prize for the highest national exam score in 1982. He has been a featured recitalist at many Guild conventions including national convent ions in 1992 (Atlanta)\, 1996 (New York City)\, 2008 (Minneapolis)\, 2012 (Nashville) and 2018 (Kansas City).\n\nA sought-after adjudicator\, Mr. Wi lson has been a jury member for many of the world’s most prestigious com petitions\, most recently at the 2023 St. Albans International Organ Compe tition. He has also served on juries for the Longwood Gardens Internationa l Competition (USA)\, the Pipeworks International Organ Competition (Irela nd)\, the Nürnberg Competition (Germany)\, the Dallas Competition (USA)\, the Royal College of Organists’ Performer of the Year Competition (UK)\ , the Calgary International Organ Festival and Competition (Canada)\, the Grand Prix de Chartres and the Toulouse Festival Competitions (France)\, t he American Guild of Organists National Young Artists Competition\, and th e Ft. Wayne Competition (USA).\n\nPrevious positions held include Visiting Professor of Organ at the University of Michigan\, Director of Music at T rinity Episcopal Cathedral (Cleveland Ohio)\, Director of Music and Organi st at The Church of the Covenant (Cleveland Ohio)\, Head of the Organ Depa rtment at Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory of Music (Berea Ohio)\, and Organis t and Master of the Choristers at the Cathedral of the Incarnation in Gard en City\, New York.\n\nMr. Wilson frequently presents repertoire master cl asses as well as workshops focused on specific aspects of service playing and accompanying. An active interest in improvisation has led to his popul ar improvised accompaniments to classic silent films. ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.libarts.colostate.edu/music/wp-conte nt/uploads/sites/17/2015/02/CSU-Organ_credit-David-Patterson-Photography.j pg CATEGORIES:College of Liberal Arts Featured Events LOCATION:Trinity Episcopal Church\, 3800 W. 20th St.\, Greeley\, CO\, 80634 \, X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3800 W. 20th St.\, Greeley\ , CO\, 80634\, ;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Trinity Episcopal Church:geo:0, 0 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Denver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Denver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20260308T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:MDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR